If you are like me and you hate spinning up a virtual machine every time you need to run a few simple queries in MS SQL Server, you have reached the right place. Read on to find out how to setup up SQuirreL (a universal SQL client) to connect to MS SQL Server via Windows Authentication (SSO). The great thing is this process will work on a Mac and Windows machine as well if you’d like to keep things consistent and use a single tool across platforms to accomplish tasks.

The key point to note here is, unlike other posts on the web that have you add the dll file in some PATH or similar environment variable in the system, I show you how to add it within SQuirreL SQL. I like this approach as it keeps things clean and self contained and not to mention that is very easy to memorize and replicate in other machines and on other OSes.